I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.